Osun state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, and the the newly elected governor, Isiaq Gboyega Oyetola, took the the streets of Osogbo to appreciate the people following the outcome of yesterday's rerun election which favored the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate.

President Buhari has commiserated with the Nigerian Air Force on the air accident which involved two fighter jets in the fleet in Abuja earlier on Friday. The President paid tributes to the gallantry of Squadron Leader MB Baba-Ari, the officer who died in the accident while also wishing the two other wounded officers quick recovery.

Saturday, 22 September 2018

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP is prosecuting four persons for alleged offences of rape, child theft, child labour and abuse. The Director Investigation and monitoring of NAPTIP, Josiah Emerole said the alleged offences contravened the agency’s act and the Violence against Persons Prohibition Act of 2015.

In its continuous effort to rid the state of illicit drugs and banned substances, the operatives of Lagos State Police Command, attached to Maroko Division, on Sunday, September 16th, at about 1200hrs, while on routine anti crime patrol, intercepted a Volks Wagen Gulf saloon car, red colour, with registration number KJA 377 EY.

The engineer supervising the project from the ministry, Kayode Ibrahim, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, September 18, in Lagos. The section one of the project was being handled by Julius Berger, which spans from Ojota in Lagos to Sagamu Interchange.

While section two begins from the Sagamu Interchange to Ibadan and was being handled by Reynolds Construction Company Ltd (RCC).

Some gallant Nigerian solders have killed some Boko Haram fighters who ambushed them in Bama, Borno state.

On Sunday, Boko Haram terrorists ambushed troops of 222 Battalion led by a Brigade Commander, while they were on a clearance patrol in support of Operation Rainbow along Bama axis in Maiduguri, Borno State.

Over 200 communities in about 10 Local Government Areas in the state have been ravaged by serious flood, rendering residents homeless and destroying properties worth millions of naira. Here are photos from the flood scenes below.

Sunday, 16 September 2018

Some eagle-eyed members of the Nigeria Customs have intercepted a truckload of military hardware and Tramadol in Anambra.

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ Owerri, has intercepted a truck carrying bales of military wears illegally imported into the country by yet to be identified persons.

A mobile patrol team at the Onitsha, Anambra State, Head Bridge axis of the Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ Owerri, on Friday, intercepted the truck with military hardware and medicament concealed within.

Comptroller Olusemire Kayode gave a breakdown of the intercepted consignments as including:

20 pieces of military camouflage singlet, 40 pieces of military camouflage jungle boots, 10 pieces of military camouflage water bags, 2 rolls of plain military khaki material, 7 cartons of 402 packs of hydrochloride Royal tramadol containing 10x10x10 tablets made in India.

Four cartons of 60 packs Tramadol injection, made in India, 3 cartons of 140 packs of CSP with codeine cough syrup made in UK, 100 packs of Diazepam made in India, 2 cartons of 231 packs of Juhel D5 tablets, 1 carton of 100 packs of Pankizol.

Others are 10 cartons of new flip chart board, 51 cartons of lion school chalk, one carton of file. Kayode stated that the seizure was made following a tip off from informants.

He urged the public to emulate such patriotism and forward valuable information to the Service, adding that two suspects are in custody and thorough investigation is ongoing.

The trial of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans, took a new twist today Tuesday September 12th after the suspect denied ever making any statement to the police, confessing to be a serial kidnapper.

At the resumed hearing of his trial at the Ikeja High Court, Evans through his counsel, Chino Obiagu, made the denial following an attempt by the State Prosecuting Counsel, Adebayo Haroun, to tender documents containing the statement of the 1st defendant (Evans) as exhibits before Justice Hakeem Oshodi.

Evans, through Obiagu, said the purported statement was not written by him neither was it voluntarily made as claimed by the police. The five suspected members of his gang namely: Uchenna Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Ogechi Uchechukwu (the only female among the gang) and two Ex-Army officers, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Chukwunonso Aduba, who are also standing trial with him, denied ever making any statement to the police.

Their counsel, argued that the statement sort to be tendered by the prosecutor was written by a policeman, Inspector Idowu Haruna attached to Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team.

Obiagu also objected to the tendering of a video clip, during trial within trial, showing Evans confessing to the crime at the police station on the grounds that it does not corroborate with Section 84 of the Evidence Act.

“I object to the admissibility of this document because the 1st defendant didn’t make them voluntarily and I am also yet to be served with a copy of the video or the Certified true copy.”Obiagu told Justice Oshodi

The police officer, Inspector Haruna, who the suspects accused of writing the false statements, told the court that he wrote the statement on behalf of Evans, after he was arrested on June 2017, because he claimed he didn’t complete Secondary school and therefore could not write well in English language.

Haruna, while being led in evidence, said that Evans and his gang members all volunteered their statements under caution after being charged with the offence of Criminal conspiracy and kidnapping.

“I got to know the defendants when they were arrested for the kidnap of one Mr Donatus Dunu- the Managing Director of Maydon pharmaceutical company, who escaped from their custody at Igando area, Lagos. When the matter was referred to my department at the IGP Response Team, we immediately visited the scene where the abductors had held him and discovered it was a well fenced and furnished bungalow with two flats; just like any normal building.

Having noticed that their victim had escaped, they gang abandoned the house before we got there. We conducted a search and discovered several Ak47 rifles (military version) and pistols which they left behind. it was through our investigation and items recovered from the building that we arrested Uchenna Amadi, who had ran to seek refuge at Port-Harcourt. Amadi, during interrogation, confessed that Evans was the mastermind and leader of their gang. This information led to the arrest of Evans at Igando area when he was about to run out of the country to Ghana. During Evans testimony, he mentioned other members of his gang like Ifeanyi and Aduba, who are former Army officers; Nwachukwu aka “Congo”-who is the agent and informant that sold information of victims to kidnap; Uchenna Amadi and his wife Ogechi. My team also made a video recording of Evans confession and narration of all his kidnapping activities before and after he came to Lagos in 2013.

After volunteering their statements, it was read to them and they signed. I, however, signed as the recorder. Some of the suspects recorded their statements by themselves but I personally recorded the statement of Evans and Victor Aduba. Their statement was further read to them again by a superior police officer, CSP Philip (former DSP) and they all agreed to have volunteered without duress. Evans, however, told us that he never imagined he could ever be caught because he has no other means of livelihood apart from crime-kidnapping and armed robbery,” the witness said.

Justice Oshodi thereafter adjourned the matter till October 26 for ruling on admissibility of documents and continuation of trial within trial.

Monday, 10 September 2018

Inspector General of Police has warned men of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad F-SARS to desist from checking the bank accounts details of anyone they interact with while discharging their duties.

The Ondo state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, have arrested a 35-year-old bricklayer, Dayo Samuel, for allegedly raping a 13-year-old daughter of his neighbor in the Ijoka area of Akure, Ondo State.

Saturday, 8 September 2018

An Egyptian court today issued death sentences for 75 people, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and jailed more than 600 others over a 2013 sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces.

Retired police officer and lawyer, Barrister Monday Joseph Ebowemen, is being prosecuted in court after allegedly defiling his 15-year-old niece and aborting two pregnancies in quick successions at the Ajah area of Lagos State.